I'm creating a function to use in my Powershell Profile that will allow me to change users. Below is what I have:
function switch-user {
Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[ValidateSet("adminUser","normalUser")]
$User="normalUser"
)
$Account1 = "$env:USERDOMAIN\normalUser"
$Account2 = "$env:USERDOMAIN\adminUser"
$AccountPassword = Read-Host -AsSecureString
switch($User) {
'normalUser' {$username = $Account1 ; $pw = $AccountPassword}
'adminUser' {$username = $Account2 ; $pw = $AccountPassword}
}
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $username,$password
New-PSSession -Credential $cred | Enter-PSSession
}
When running the function (i.e. switch-user adminUser), I receive the following error:
Param : The term 'Param' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or
operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and
try again.
At C:\Users\normalUser\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1:7 char:5
+ Param(
+ ~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Param:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
I'm fairly new to Powershell. Am I incorrectly declaring the Param? I know it needs to be the first line in a function, so what am I missing?
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I'm trying to write a powershell script to publish a theme in my on-premise installation of Dynamics CRM.
According to this page it should be really straight forward, I create an object of type PublishThemeRequest which derives from OrganizationRequest and call the method ExecuteCrmOrganizationRequest.
This is the code I'm running:
Import-Module Microsoft.Xrm.Data.Powershell
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Xrm.Tooling.Connector
$orgName = "<my organization name>";
$serverUrl = "http://server_url";
$Cred = Get-Credential -UserName "<my username>" -Message "Please Enter admin credentials for CRM"
$conn = Get-CrmConnection -Credential $Cred -OrganizationName $orgName -ServerUrl $serverUrl
$req = New-Object Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages.PublishThemeRequest
$req.Target = New-CrmEntityReference -EntityLogicalName "theme" -Id "DB80D57A-6410-4D11-B784-0093122802AC"
$result = [Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages.PublishThemeResponse]$conn.ExecuteCrmOrganizationRequest($req, $null)
This is what I get when I execute the code above:
Cannot convert argument "req", with value: "Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages.PublishThemeRequest", for "ExecuteCrmOrganizationRequest" to type
"Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.OrganizationRequest": "Cannot convert the "Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages.PublishThemeRequest" value of type
"Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages.PublishThemeRequest" to type "Microsoft.Xrm.Sdk.OrganizationRequest"."
At C:\Users\xxxxxxxxxx\Desktop\PublishTheme.ps1:21 char:1
+ $result = [Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.Messages.PublishThemeResponse]$conn.Exec ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodArgumentConversionInvalidCastArgument
I have been reading the documentation and other websites for a couple of hours now but seem to have hit a wall.
Any ideas of what my problem might be?
I have a script in Powershell and want to run this on many servers.
It's running from Jenkins via a Powershell step, the input param $env:servers
Simple example:
$SrvPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "$($ENV:SlavePassword)" -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ("$ENV:SlaveUser", $SrvPassword)
Invoke-Command -Computername $env:servers -ScriptBlock {
$client = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$client.DownloadFile("\\server1.domain.ru\123\123.zip","C:\123.zip")
} -Credential $cred
But when I build it with parametrs, i got error:
[firstDeploy] $ powershell.exe -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy ByPass "& 'C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\jenkins6658148949844825772.ps1'"
Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s): "Access to the path '\\server1.domain.ru\123\123.zip' is denied."
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException
+ PSComputerName : server2.domain.ru
When i do this without jenkins all work fine. Share full access. What's wrong?
I am trying to pass value for argument in below command script called install.ps1. I execute it by ./install.ps1 HD1
invoke-command -Session $session -ScriptBlock {G:\usr\sap\$($args[0])\hdbclient\hdbuserstore.exe list}
but it gave an error to me that
The term 'G:\usr\sap\$($args[0])\hdbclient\hdbuserstore.exe' is not
recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable
program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included,
verify that the path is correct and try again.
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (G:\usr\sap\$($a...dbuserstore.exe:String) [],
CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
+ PSComputerName : hostname
You are not using the -Argumentlist parameter on Invoke-Command. Let me show an example below. Use the Param method inside the scriptblock if you want to use custom variable names.
$Directory = "HD1"
$Scriptblock = {
param($Var1)
G:\usr\sap\$Var1\hdbclient\hdbuserstore.exe list
}
invoke-command -Session $session -ScriptBlock $Scriptblock -ArgumentList $Directory
What am I doing wrong here? I am trying to open a second PS1 file if True but an error is thrown (shown below).
#ABOUT
#GLOBALS
$userID = "admin"
$pswrd = "test"
$name = Read-Host 'What is your username?'
$pass = Read-Host 'And your password?' #-AsSecureString | ConvertFrom-SecureString
#$script = '.\sdsSysMain.ps1'
if($name -eq $userID -and $pass -eq $pswrd) #or blank?
{
#write-host "Well done! You're in. "
#Start-Sleep -s 5
Powershell -noexit ".\sdsSysMain.ps1"
}
elseif($name -ne $userID -or $pass -ne $pswrd)
{
write-host "Login Failed... :("
}
This is the error I'm getting:
powershell.exe : The term '.\sdsSysMain.ps1' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function
At C:\Users\1234\Documents\Projects\sdsSys\sdsSysLogin.ps1:19 char:15
+ Powershell <<<< -noexit ".\sdsSysMain.ps1"
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (The term '.\sds...mdlet, function:String) [],
RemoteException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError
, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included,
verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:17
+ .\sdsSysMain.ps1 <<<<
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (.\sdsSysMain.ps1:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
The error is rather self-explanatory. The script doesn't find sdsSysMain.ps1 in the current working directory. You can output the current working directory in your script like this:
(Get-Location).Path
If you want to run sdsSysMain.ps1 from the same directory as the script calling it, change this:
Powershell -noexit ".\sdsSysMain.ps1"
into this:
$scriptPath = Split-Path -Parent $script:MyInvocation.MyCommand.Path
Powershell -NoExit -File "$scriptPath\sdsSysMain.ps1"
I am trying to implement a way to use a stored secure string so that my SFTP password is not visiable in the script. For example, I'd like to generate a variable $password that could be used instead. I found the following examples online but I can't get them to work unfortunately. I've done something similar in the past but can find my notes or links to the website that explained how to complete the task.
read-host -assecurestring | convertfrom-securestring | out-file C:\securestring.txt
$pass = cat C:\securestring.txt | convertto-securestring
$mycred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "test",$pass
Here is my script. Here is a link to the snapin if anyone is interested. http://www.k-tools.nl/index.php/sftp-in-powershell/
#Add the SFTP snap-in
Add-PSSnapin KTools.PowerShell.SFTP
#Define some variables
$sftpHost = "ftp.domain.com"
$userName = "user"
$userPassword = "password"
$localFile = "C:\bin\emp1.xlsx"
#Open the SFTP connection
$sftp = Open-SFTPServer -serverAddress $sftpHost -userName $userName -userPassword $userPassword
#Upload the local file to the root folder on the SFTP server
$sftp.Put($localFile)
#Close the SFTP connection
$sftp.Close()
Again, thanks for everyones help!
UPDATE
I tried this:
$pass = cat c:\bin\ftpcreds.txt | convertto-securestring
$mycred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "usertest1",$pass
$sftpHost = "ftp.domain.com"
$userName = $mycred.username
$userPassword = $mycred.password
$sftp = Open-SFTPServer -serverAddress $sftpHost -userName $userName -userPassword $userPassword
$sftp.Put($localFile)
$sftp.Close()
And get this error:
Method invocation failed because [Tamir.SharpSsh.jsch.JSchException] doesn't contain a method named 'Put'.
At C:\bin\SFTP Upload Samples.ps1:21 char:1
+ $sftp.Put($localFile)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound
Method invocation failed because [Tamir.SharpSsh.jsch.JSchException] doesn't contain a method named 'Close'.
At C:\bin\SFTP Upload Samples.ps1:36 char:1
+ $sftp.Close()
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : MethodNotFound
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
If your SFTP is wanting to use a decrypted version of your secured password then you'll want to extract it from your $mycred by:
$userpassword = $mycred.getnetworkcredential().password.tostring()